13 comments:

skidmark
said...

A missed opportunity to open a new revenue stream. Throwaway Rags and Wirth-Liss Pharma pay you to put the mags in the lobby.

Of course, you put them on a table under a sign reading "Some drug companies will do anything to make you think you need their new medicine - even if it does not treat your problem or could kill you. Ask your doctor."

With the outright ban on advertising prescription meds to patients here (Ireland), these mags are even more hilariously useless, as all they can do is imply you might have a problem that urgently needs talking to your doc about. Meaning there's lengthy articles about "having trouble peeing?" and so on.

When you add to that the mix of ads for useless "class 2 medical device" supplements and so on, there's about three pages left for the actual editorial which is usually the most vapid rubbish ever written. Still, they burn well.

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